For No Apparent Reason (NEO)

Sometimes I do forget what’s simple in my life.Sometimes I do forget to breathe.I never break long enough to take stock of who I’ll be when I’m through.You say “breathe”And I do.

Sometimes you claim I miss the good that’s in my life.Sometimes I do almost agree.Somehow I take it in, then push it all away.You say I should stay,You say, you say I’m the very best part of your day.

But there’s dawn and dusk and midnight.Trust me, lots of times caught in between.Lazy mornings, afternoons that burn until the world turns green.I would not compete with skyThen you somehow made me try.And now I have been taking youI’ve been pressing you into my pageThinking I can’t be breaking through wallsI shouldn’t still have at my age.So I’m shaken and affected to hear unexpectedlyThat for no apparent reason you love me.

I am not faultless. I am no shining, blinding sun.I am no cosmic display.You say, “that is what we’ll become.”

In the dawn and dusk and midnight.And then lots of times caught in between.Lazy mornings, afternoons that burn until the world turns green.See, I did not consider sky ‘til you held me,Taught me how to fly.I’ve been pressing you into my pageThinking I can’t be breaking through wallsI shouldn’t still have at my age.But I’ll breathe and break and stay hereWondering how I found my way hereThough I’ll ask in each new season that’s to beWhy for no apparent reasonOr at least none I can seeWhy for no apparent reason you love me.You love me.You love me.